Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms. 

As a successful candidate, you will be a member of Ginkgo’s Agriculture Business Unit (AgBU) Division, located in West Sacramento, CA. Ginkgo is seeking a highly motivated Plant Pathologist with extensive experience working with plant pathogens and biologicals. The role requires experience in isolation, pure culturing, and maintenance of fungal, Oomycetes and bacterial plant pathogens, as well as experience in screening biologicals, natural product chemistry (NPC), and small molecules (SM) against plant pathogens both in vitro and in planta. You will work collaboratively on cross-functional teams to design, develop, and test microbial strains and compounds against plant pathogens, aiming to identify those with enhanced efficacy, stability, and residual activity. Responsibilities include maintaining pathogen cultures, ...